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Fergie Gupte
Subhashchandra Pandharinath Gupte
Born: 11 December 1929, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Died: 31 May 2002, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Major Teams: Mumbai, Bengal, Rajasthan, Trinidad, India.
Known As: Fergie Gupte
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Leg Break Googly
Test Debut: India v England at Calcutta, 3rd Test, 1951/52
Last Test: India v England at Delhi, 3rd Test, 1961/62
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 36 42 13 183 21 6.31 0 0 14 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 1880.4 608 4403 149 29.55 9-102 12 1 75.7 2.34
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1948/49 - 1963/64)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 115 125 32 761 47 8.18 0 0 52 0
R W Ave BBI 5 10
Bowling 12567 530 23.71 10-78 36 11
LIST A LIMITED OVERS
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 0 - - - - - - - - -
Balls M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 0 - - - - - - - - -
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
In his time, the best of his type in the game, Subash Gupte was a
world class leg break-googly bowler. Of slight build, Gupte was a big
spinner of the ball, but his line and length remained immaculate. He
gave the ball plenty of air and his googly was most deceptive. After a
slow start, his Test career really took off in the West Indies in
1953, when he took 50 wickets on the tour at an average of 23.64. More
impressive was the fact that he took 27 wickets in the Tests on
perfect batting wickets and while bowling to the three W's, Rae,
Stollmeyer and Pairaudeau. He was again the most successful bowler in
Pakistan in 1954-55 with 21 wickets and the following season against
New Zealand he was quite unplayable in finishing with 34 wickets
(19.67), the Indian record till BS Chandrasekhar surpassed it 27 years
later. The fleet footed Australian Neil Harvey dented his confidence
a bit in 1956-57 but Gupte was back to his old magic in capturing nine
wickets for 102 in an innings against West Indies at Kanpur two
seasons later. He finished the series with 22 wickets and embarked on
the tour of England in 1959 with confidence (he had narrowly missed
making the trip in 1952). He captured 95 wickets (26.58) on the tour,
but only 17 of them were taken in the five Tests. By then Gupte had
married a West Indian girl and had settled in Trinidad but he returned
to make five more appearances in the sixties, three against Pakistan
in 1960-61 and two against England the following season. In his
penultimate Test, he showed that he had lost none of his old subtlety
when with a spell of four for six off 18 balls at Kanpur he had
England following on for the first time against India.
During a first class career that stretched from 1947 to 1964,
Gupte took 530 wickets (23.71). This included taking of all
ten wickets for Bombay against Pakistan Services and Bahawalphur
CC in 1954. In 1982 a benefit match for him was held in Sharjah.
(Partab Ramchand)
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